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Name

What is it?

Repository

Open access

Online database

Not formally peer-reviewed

cf. arXiv: "Papers will be entered in the listings in order of receipt on an impartial basis and appearance of a paper is not intended in any way to convey tacit approval of its assumptions, methods, or conclusions by any agent (electronic, mechanical, or other). We reserve the right to reject any inappropriate submissions. This site should not be used to distribute non-technical information (such as news or information about political causes of potential special interest to the academic community). Submission of an abstract without an accompanying paper will be rejected outright."[1]

cf. PLoS ONE: "Each submission will be assessed by a member of the PLoS ONE Editorial Board before publication. This pre-publication peer review will concentrate on technical rather than subjective concerns and may involve discussion with other members of the Editorial Board and/or the solicitation of formal reports from independent referees. If published, papers will be made available for community-based open peer review involving online annotation, discussion, and rating."[2]

Note: See swapnotes.com for an example of students sharing class notes online

Note: Could have submission system to OA journals

Note: Could import/export from/to students' institutional repository

Annotate

For enjoyment or intellectual advancement

For the advancement of science

For a class assignment or extra credit

Note: In comments, could use InterWiki-style links to Wikimedia projects. e.g. instead of requiring the user to paste the URL to a Wikipedia article with title k, the user can simply type "Wikipedia:k", or click a button that says "Link to a Wikipedia article" which opens a dialog box that asks for the title of the article the user wants to link to.

Taglines

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Interest list

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